Old Photograph Crofters Cottages South Uist Scotland

Old photograph of Crofters cottages near Lochboisdale, South Uist, Scotland. In 1838, the Clan Ranald chief sold South Uist to John Gordon of Cluny, sparking a brutal period of evictions. By 1851, half the tenantry was forcibly cleared to Canada to make way for more profitable sheep farming.


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